Insight Pocket Guides: Bhutan (1996) is an excellent general guide to Bhutan that includes numerous pictures and is appropriate for young readers. Another useful introduction to Bhutan that is appropriate for younger readers is Bhutan (2001), by Robert Cooper. Barbara Crossette's So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas (1996) is an interesting book about Buddhism in Bhutan, Sikkim, and Nepal. A scholarly treatment of Bhutan politics, government, and ethnic relations is Bhutan: Perspectives on Conflict and Dissention (1994). South Asia— Nepal, Bangladesh, and Bhutan: A Global Studies Handbook (2002) by Nanda R. Shrestha and Bimal K. Paul contains a great deal of useful information on Bhutan.
Videos relating to Bhutan include Bhutan: Land of the Thunder Dragon; Maya: Messages in Stone, a fifty-minute video in the Mystic Lands series published by WinStar Home Entertainment in 1997; and Bhutan-Himalyan Cultural Diary, a video about Bhutanese history and religion published by Video Outlines/Pro-crustes Press in 1997.
World Wide Web resources provide valuable information, especially on current events in Bhutan. Useful sites include Amnesty International at Http://www. amnesty. org. uk/, the Bhutanese Refugee Crisis at Http://www. amherst. edu/~amherst/ bhutan/menu. html (which includes many pictures of the refugee camps), the Bhutan Homepage, which seems to be the official site and is located at Http://www. bhutan-Info. org/index. htm, Derechos Human Rights at Http://www. derechos. org/saran/ bhutan. html, and Kuensel, the Web site of the national newspaper of Bhutan at Http://kuensel. com.
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